“Bobolee” bands were popular around the 1860s and were ensembles of men and women from the poorer neighborhoods of Port of Spain. On Good Friday and during Carnival, they beat tin pans chanting, “Beat the bobolee! Beat the bobolee!

If the landsman should wish the gang-plank moved a foot farther forward, he would probably say: “James, or William, one of you push that plank forward, please”; but put the mate in his place, and he would roar out: “Here, now, start that gang-plank for'ard! Lively, now! What're you about!..."

Puck carriers will often use the blade of the hockey stick in timing a deke or fake (if one is used) to get around an opponent.

Yeah, they could literally throw down. When their sound came out, it was earth-shaking.